Would it be an overstatement to describe the late Rod Serling as a “visionary” ?

@graphite That's interesting. I read the novel, and the story is a bit different from the movie.

@DrWatson Different endings. I think the poorly done remake in 2000 reverted to the original ending from the novel.

@graphite I never saw that remake. The novel was very intellectual, and it got into discussions about the nature of intelligence and the behavior of a species, that probably would be too wordy to put into a movie.

@DrWatson In the 2001 remake, the astronaut goes back to find that the Tim Roth ape character, Thade, a villain in the movie, is now revered as a leader of their civilization; there are statues of him.

@graphite That is still different from the book.